Category: ROMAN
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On Fortifications – DE MUNITIONIBUS CASTRORUM part 1
17-01-12 On Fortifications 1. Nunc papilonum tensionem cohortium supra scriptarum ostendimus. Papilio unus occupat pedes X, accipit incrementum tensurae pedes…
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Continuing Free Low-Tech Service Delivery
Hello to those who still manage to find this blog. Sorry but I will not able to update this regularly.…
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Poll and Byzantine History Podcast
I hope visitors would answer the poll. The eras aren’t specifically tied to their emperors or leaders. There are many…
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Sins of the Crusade Genealogy
This is the Sins of the Crusade Genealogy. Looking at the Game of Thrones Genealogies I think I have a…
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Medieval Army Sizes Reflection
A player once proposed I use the most optimistic force numbers found in historical sources. This is a pretty big…
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The Sack of Constantinople 1204AD post Mortem
the Sack of Constantinople at 1204ad can be considered the end of the centralized and perpetuating bureaucratic organism that remained…
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e23: GURPS Crusades
e23: GURPS Crusades: “The Crusades lasted nearly two centuries, and their effects are felt to this day. These wars were…
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GURPS Low-Tech in my games
e23: GURPS Low-Tech Its been a while and finally its arived. I’m a month late to hear the news but…
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Working on Game Tools
Harn has a manor generation system. Along with my own Historical Sources, I think I can make my own suitable…
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Levant aka Modern Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Syria.
Checking the wiki about each country and using google maps I found out that Israel and Palestine: 22,000 sq km…
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[Strategikon] War Band of Adventurers
Strategos (Military Rank 8; Status 4) The General of the Army. Strategos mentioned are Belisarius, and Narses. Hypo Strategos (Military…
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Strategikon: Teasing out and its Details
The winds have died for my Crusader Era write ups. I’ll wait till the winds blow back at them again.…
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House Baldwin Territories
House Baldwin. There is a lot of area that makes up the relatively small but significant Kingdom of Jerusalem. In…
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A better map of 12C Crusader Palestine
The title is a link to a better resource for the Kingdom of Jerusalem 15C. 4950 Villages30 towns6 Cities1 Capital…
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Kingdom of Jerusalem List
Basically using the guidelines and exel sheet of Medieval Demographics Made easy I’ll work with these settlements. Basically for simplicity…
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House Baldwin: The Kingdom of Jerusalem
I’ve been reading up on the kingdom of Jerusalem. In the Sins of the Crusades, the altered history made for…
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The Slavers of the Horde
The Slavers of the Horder are men that profit from the enemies of the empire: the horde that had conqured…
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Strange Bandits: NPCs part 1: Antagonists
antagonist behind the scenes: Baron Janos of Var-Jaqai, son of Corvin III Description: Baron Janos is always seen with his…
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Encounter: Strange Bandits
Strange Bandits are raiding the area.Background– The life of a soldier is a hard one, and one of the natural…
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More Courtier Templates
The adventuring troupe is not complete with the non-combatant arm of an adventuring party. Before I prepare a sample adventure…
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My Template for Knights
The Warrior Class. The Knight is a term for the mounted warrior social class. In many ancient and medieval cultures,…
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The Imperial Line
Constantine XIII, won the throne almost 10 years ago. Alliances always shift, this is current one in 366th year of…
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Project Outline
Game Setting. (2 hours) House Komena: Resources, Families, Family Tree, Vassals, Resources, Army, and Territories. (2 hours) House Osman: (same)…
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Its about time
Well i have time now. Anyway, I’m working on a 11C Crusades Dark Fantasy Campaign Setting, that I plan to…
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Equipment Lists
This is filler until the real Low Tech comes around. It is mostly based on the discussion on the forums.…
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Some Basic Equipment
Squadron or Deckarchy Equipment. (p. 138) 1st. Footman:1) Thick Tunic which extends down over the knees.2) Heavy Hiking Sandals. Note:…
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Finally Got my copy of the strategikon. I’m painting some Byzantine Figs (5century) and organizing a targetnumber based set of…
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The myriad peoples of the Byzantine Game.
The Peoples a Player can choose for a character are as follows: Byzantine Greek Macedonian Ilyrian Armenian Latin Nomad Hun…
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Hiatus
Right now I’m very busy and I don’t think I will be free to update until august.